Shirt-bosom.



N0. 720,160. PATENTBD PEB.10, 1903.

' 0. L. &,L. B. KRE SUHMAR.

SHIRT BOSOM.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 1. 1902.

110' MODEL.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. KRETSCHMAR AND LULU B. KRETSCHMAR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SHIRT-BOSOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 720,160, dated February 10, 1903.

Application filed May 1, 1902. Serial No. 105,430. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES LESLIE KRETSCHMAR and LULU B. KRETSOHMAR, citizens of the United States, residing at St. 5 Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shirt-Bosoms, of which the following isa full, clear; and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and :0 use the same, reference being bad to the acshirt-bosoms, and more particularly to the type of such bosoms embodying two flaps, either of which can be presented as the front of the'bosom. Heretofore bosoms of this character have been proposed, but difficulties have presented themselves in the manufacture and wearing qualities of such bosoms.

Our objects are to provide a bosom of the character indicated which can be easily and economically manufactured and will stand wear and handling in laundering, &c.

To these ends, and also to improve generally upon articles of the character indicated, our invention consists inthe various matters hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents the body portion of the present article, and 2 represents the flaps, said fiapsextendingverticallyand being connected at their outer edges with the said body por-' or neckband to the bottom of said bosom and between the said two flaps, there being a wing 4 upon the body portion at each side edge of said opening. This opening and the said wings are produced by cutting a slit at the bottom of the bosom in a line extending across the said flaps when in position, said slit being of a length corresponding to the width of the opening 3 desired, and slitting the bosom lonily manufactured; but it leaves a raw edge 6 of material at the bottom of the opening 3, leaves raw edges 7 at the bottom of the wings, and the wings and flaps are liable to be torn from the body portion of the article. In order to overcome these defects, we extend a tape 8 across the front of the body portion between the flaps and in such position that its edges lie above and below the raw edge 6,while a second tape 9 extends across the back face of the body portion of the bosom, with the said raw edge intermediate the edges of said second tape. The front tape 8 also extends upon the flaps, the raw edges 7 of the wings lying intermediate the edges of the tape, and by stitching the tapes along their edges said tapes are secured together and to the body portion, the wings, and the flaps or plaits, thus concealing and protecting the raw edges 6 and 7 and also greatly strengthening the structure at the points at the ends of the edge 6i. e., at the points at which the wings at are connected at their ends to the body portion. Preferably in order to strengthen the connection between the flaps and the body portion the front tape extends not only across the front of the body portion, between the said flaps,

and upon the inner faces of the flaps, across the ends of the wings 7, but also entirely across the inner faces of the flaps, around the outer edges of said flaps, and then across the outer faces thereof, the ends of the tape being then secured to the outer face of the body portion of the material at the outer sides of the flaps, as shown at 10.

A shirt constructed as above described can ICO be readily and economically manufactured, is neatin appearan ce,and has its flaps strongly secured to the body portion.

We are aware that many minor changes in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of our device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A shirt which is slit through the neckband vertically downwardly through a part of the body portion, and having transverse slits extending from the lower end of said vertical slit into the body portion, whereby wings integral with the body portion are formed, in-

,said flaps and extending beyond the same,

where it is secured to the body portion of the shirt; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aifix our signatures, in the presence of two witnesses, this 28th day of April, 1902.

CHARLES L. KRETSOHMAR. LULU B. KRETSCHMAR.

Witnesses:

GALES P. MOORE, GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

